Does anyone get inappropriate thoughts? I get these weird thoughts when I’m around certain people. Do you get them? I’m afraid to tell my pdoc because I’m afraid they’ll hospitalize me.
Are they violent? Or do the frighten you? They are just thoughts. You can change your thinking.
They are violent and they do frighten me that’s why I’m afraid to say anything. I don’t think I’ll do anything but I don’t know. How can you change your thoughts when they race through and sometimes just linger there. It’s scary.
It’s tough and takes time. Just try to do something else with your mind until the people dont trigger you any more.
I get this almost constant barrage of these thoughts. They’re just like the voices when I am really sick, but these are my own brain. They really get me down sometimes. I get tricked quite a lot, they will be really nice and I will talk to them, then some of them turn really nasty and I end up having to ground myself until they subside. Luckily I have been working, so when I am distracted from myself I don’t suffer from it. Maybe try distracting yourself by keeping busy. I know you can’t do it all the time, but I actually look forward to work as it gives me a break from myself. Shame I can’t seem to find the motivation to do more with myself out of working hours. I feel like ending it sometimes when I am not at work. It’s not healthy, but how things have turned out I guess. I also avoid doing anything in public, as symptoms surface and I notice them myself now I am more aware of it, I am really self-conscious.
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I’ve been doing that for a while and I’ll keep doing it, thanks
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I work too and the weird thing is that it happens when I’m working.I work on the phone so you would think I wouldn’t have thoughts while I’m on the phone but I do. When this this coworker comes over I get the strangest thoughts and I want them to stop.
Do you work for quite a big company? I only work in an office with less than 10 people, so I am comfortable with about half the people there as I have forced myself to go there for about a year now. I must admit though, a while ago I thought that someone on the phone was mentally communicating with me. I get that a lot in public, so I only really leave the house for work.
I am sorry my suggestion has been tried and doesn’t work for you.
Keep at it and all yourself to forget it even happens. This should reduce the anxiety that keeps it afloat.
Least those are my tactics.
I do work for a big company but it only happens around certain people. I’m going to try to block my thoughts or thinking about something else and see how that works. What I’ve been doing is just kind of avoiding the people or rushing them so I can get away from them but their my friends and family so I don’t want to do that.
This might kind of sound weird, but I have my own independent voice where I challenge and argue with my own thoughts - sort of trying to interrupt and make logical sense out of them. Might be a way you can try and overcome it?
I do have inappopriate thoughts, it must be the OCD thing.
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Yeah I was going to say it could be OCD
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So you’re thinking it may be OCD. I don’t really know too much about that but I’ll look it up.
Oh my God these are signs of OCD do you guys think I should tell my pdoc? Do you think I’ll get hospitalized?
As far as I know, you can’t be hospitalized if you really have OCD, unless your doctor is a j… . You must tell him that you are AFRAID that you might do something bad, this is a sign that is OCD and not violence. People with OCD as far as I know only are AFRAID that they might hurt someone, but it’s only in they are mind, they WON’T do it. So, tell him this.
Signs of ocd and social anxiety. The fact that people trigger thoughts at all besides what you might say to them.
I’d just try and relax. Fake it till you make it(be nice and patient in these situations).
An ocd med might help. If you’re in with a doc it wouldn’t hurt to mention.
This is just me… but I feel there is an OCD element in this illness.
I still have inappropriate thoughts around stress situations… I also found it happens with ADHD which I was diagnosed with when I was a little kid.
I bet there might be a way to let your doc know your feeling some anxiety from intrusive and inappropriate thoughts and you could bring up what you’ve researched on OCD and start the conversation that way.
I can understand you not wanting to tell the doc the content of the thoughts… but the fact that inappropriate thoughts are adding stress to your day shouldn’t get you hospitalized.
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You wont get hospitalized for OCD - I would let him know, but the treatments for it are tricky - usually an SSRI antidepressant if that.
I have OCD but cannot take the meds for it, antidepressants would make me manic or mixed -
but yeah I would mention to him your symptoms
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I’m just experiencing this I was put on Prozac an antidepressant and I started crying uncontrollably at work. I went back and was put on tegretol ( mood stabalizer) . I’m trying to get back to normal. It’s not working too well. I